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Lectures at the College de France, 1973-74: Psychiatric Power (Lectures at the Collège de France)
In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division accord
...morePaperback, 416 pages
Published
June 24th 2008
by Picador
(first published 2003)
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I like Foucault's lectures better than his writings. This is the fourth of his lectures that I have read. I was waiting for it to come out in paper back. I think this work is better than Madness and Civilization. Foucault explains the role of psychiatry in the 18th century transition from sovereign power to disciplinary power of the 19th century.
There is a power to Focault's lectures which is not there (at least not as much) in his normal publications. Although at first "Psychiatric Power" might seem as a revisitation of "History Of Madness", it is far from. The actual idea of psychiatry is second to games of power and as such many of the ideas in these lectures are much closer to "discipline and punish".
The main thesis is that first appearance of psychiatry was not as much a science of the mind and o...more
The main thesis is that first appearance of psychiatry was not as much a science of the mind and o...more
But it's not like people abuse it, right? Man, I hope that psychologist who assisted the Army in torturing the detainees burns in fucking hell.
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Great discussion of sovereign and disciplinary powers here. Also some good stuff on the historial discourses of truth. There are some gems you won't find in Madness and Civilization.
Hooray for humble philosophy.
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